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Indeed. And the SI defining constants are downright ugly.

• lostlogin 4y ago
  Yes, give me chains, barley corns and furlongs so that we have nice folksy constants.
  • ralph84 4y ago
    The supposed beauty of SI comes from (most) people having 10 fingers, so it has its folksy component. But SI doesn’t work well with computers and its defining constants are ridiculously ugly and inaccessible. SI is no less outdated than those units, but we hold onto it for backwards compatibility.
• Aardwolf 4y ago
  Perhaps humanity should have chosen base 12 (or, of course, base 16) at end of 18th century. With base 12 SI units at least some argument for imperial units would be gone, that is that some of their ratios are easy fractions. Not that this makes sense since the ratios of different imperial units are different random numerical values, and nothing prevents using fraction notation with metric units